FEBRt'ARY 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



349 



A Vase of The Marquis exhibited at Buffalo. 



\V. J. Palmer & Son. Buffalo, several 

 fine vases of standard varieties. 



Miller & Son, Bracondale. Toronto, 

 Lady Van Home and Lady Minto. 



Chicago Carnation Co.. Joliel. 111.. 

 some splendid vases of Jubilee. Bradt. 

 Mrs. Jas. Dean. Maceo and several 

 promising seedlings. 



E. G. Hill & Co., Richmond. Ind.. 100 

 blooms each of .1. Whitcomb Riley. 

 Mary Hill. Olympia, Ethel Crocker and 

 50 fine flowers of Leslie Paul. 



J. N. May, a vase of fine blooms of 

 Olympia. 



Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass., a grand 

 vase of the famous Mrs. Thos. W. Law- 

 son. 



Wietor Bros., Chicago, vase of a pink 

 sport of Armazindy. 



T. J. Totten, Saratoga Springs. N. 

 Y., vase of Young America, a very deep 

 pink. 



R. Craig & Son, magnificent vases of 

 Melba, America, Ethel Crocker. Go- 

 mez and Maceo. 



H. Dale, Brampton, Ont.. G. H. 

 Crane and Cerise Queen. 



Wm. Pendley. Brampton, Ont., three 

 good displays of violets. 



C. W. Ward exhibited 1.000 blooms, 

 among them Maceo, Gomez. Bradt. 

 White Cloud, Governor Roosevelt and 

 many seedlings. 



The judges made the following sup- 

 plementary report: 



"Your committee also examined 

 Kift's patent adjustable flower vas5 

 and plant holder and find it an exceed- 

 ingly useful device for the arrange- 

 ment of cut flowers and potted plants. 

 Also a rubber-capped flower tube for 



individual flowers, useful for keeping 

 separate flowers in fresh condition 

 when used decoratively." 



"Also the Garland gutter, a great 

 improvement for .greenhouse construc- 

 tion." 



Overheard Outside of the Meeting. 



Any carnation with any calyx will 

 burst. I had a crop of bursted flow- 

 ers on Crane, but it was entirely due 

 to an accidental lowering of the tem- 

 perature of the house for a few days. 



There is a large percentage of soda 

 in carnations and this may be why we 

 prefer nitrate of soda to sulphate of 

 ammonia as a fertilizer. 



The experimental work carried on 

 by the professors in commercial green- 

 houses in charge of practical men is 

 bringing some reliable and useful re- 

 sults. They are very different from 

 the results of experiments conducted 

 in small experiment station green- 

 houses run by men entirely unfamil- 

 iar with commercial methods and com- 

 mercial conditions. 



The coming into contact with the 

 best men in the trade from all over the 

 country, and the acquaintance, 5 thus 

 made, are the chief value of tl.e con- 

 ventions. 



The Banquet. 



On Friday evening the flowers in the 

 exhibition hall were used in the deco- 

 ration of several lengthy dining tables 

 and the visitors enjoyed a banquet ten- 

 dered them by the Buffalo Club. It 

 was a brilliant gatherin,g. presided over 

 by Wm. P. Kasting, while the toast- 



nia.st^er was no less a personage than 

 William Scott. 



The menu was all right and so was 

 tin menu card, a si)ecial design by 

 Daniel B. I>ong, the cover having a 

 Ki)ray of carnations and a buffalo em- 

 bossed upon it, while the inside con- 

 tained some French which was ex- 

 plained in English as "an attempt at 

 hybridizing wit and common sense 

 cro.-sed with gastronomy." The many 

 friends of Mr. S<ott will no doubt be 

 grieved to learn that lie acted as a 

 "Demonstrateur <les Resultants.'" But 

 whatever it was, he did it all right, and 

 when introduced by Mr. Kasting he 

 was received with three rousing cheers 

 liy the assemblage. 



lie welcomed the visitors in one of 

 bis Inimitable speeches and expressed 

 till- hope that they would come again 

 during the Pan-American Exposition 

 next year. He was proud of .Mr. Kast- 

 ing, who had done so much to prepare 

 tor the entertainment of the guests, 

 and added, "It will be a long time be- 

 fore he gets over this." He proposed a 

 toast to the American Carnation So- 

 ciety and called upon President W. P. 

 Craig to respond. 



.Mr. Craig thanked the Bnffalonians 

 for the efforts that had made the ninth 

 annual meeting of Uie society so suc- 

 cessful. He was much gratified at the 

 progress shown and was sure all would 

 enjoy Baltimore's brand of hospitality 

 next year. 



Mr. Wm. Weber responded for 

 "Maryland, My Maryland." He pre- 

 dicted that the meeting in Baltimore 

 in UtOt would be equal to any preced- 

 ing one and promised every effort to 

 insure its success. 



Mr. J. N. May. responding for the S. 

 .A. F., said he questioned whether any 

 other mother could point to so fine a 

 looking and vigorous an offspring as 

 the S. A. F. could in the Carnation 

 Society. He noted that Thorpe's ideal 

 had been nearly reached in "666." 



Mr. E. G. Hill spoke for "America," 

 and, while he was proud of being an 

 American, he had a warm fraternal 

 feeling for the brothers over the -R'ater. 

 and this was second only to his ties at 

 home. He hoped to see all at Indian- 

 apolis in 1902. He felt that exhibitors 

 at the present meeting had not been 

 treated fairly in that no one had been 

 awarded 100 points. He told of an in- 

 teresting hopeful at school who. when 

 asked, "If your father were to give 

 your mother $5, $20, and $10, what 

 would she have'?" answered, "She 

 would have a fit." 



Mr. C. W. Ward said that between 

 dead cats, aphis punk and Wm. Scott 

 he had had a remarkably clean time. 

 He said "America is the light of prog- 

 ress of the world and has produced 

 some extraordinary men. In that cate- 

 gory must be included Governor Roose- 

 velt, of New York. A man who was 

 born with a golden spoon in his mouth, 

 but who abandoned a life of luxury to 

 take up the most strenuous sort of a 

 career. Is certainly no ordinaiw man. 

 And a man who can name a new car- 

 nation after him without getting a 



